Carl Jung Quotes

1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
quotes
53
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“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
Sanity
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
Pain
“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”
Adventure
“Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.”
Masses
“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”
Mind
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
Knowledge
“A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.”
Committees and Meetings
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
Chaos
“Our blight is ideologies -- they are the long-expected Antichrist!”
Ideology
“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”
Understanding
“When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.”
Fate
“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”
Perspective
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
Passion
“The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality”
Achievement
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Imitation
“The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.”
Youth
“From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.”
Age and Aging
“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.”
Emotions
“The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
Torture
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”
Addiction
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
Individuality
“Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.”
Spirit and Spirituality
“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”
Imagination
“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.”
Adversity
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
Light
“It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.”
Dreams
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.”
Vision
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Cooperation
“Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
Love
“Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.”
Individuality